BOYS PRESSED INTO BATTLE
GERMANS IN VERITABLE PANIC. HEAPS OP ENEMY DEAD. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) PARIS, March 7. An officer wounded on Sunday’s fighting at Vatacheranville, states that the Pomeranian regiments fighting there are mostly composed of very young men, who hav 0 been pressed into new nnifornls and mrged jintjo the battle. There was a veritable panic when cur batteries opened fire which lasted until the Brandenburg regiment (and Landwehr brigade were reinforced. Heaps of German dead lay at several points, reaching to the French barbed wire.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 58, 8 March 1916, Page 5
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